Re: System Provided Font Menu?
Re: System Provided Font Menu?
- Subject: Re: System Provided Font Menu?
- From: Scott Ahten <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:51:41 -0500
On Feb 18, 2005, at 7:03 AM, Andreas Mayer wrote:
Am 17. Feb 2005 um 22:21 Uhr schrieb Scott Ahten:
but a font menu would be useful in a grouped, multi-property
inspector panel or an application menu
No.
I could see the three primary panes of the Font Panel being quite
useful as pop-up menus in a inspector panel along with other document
formating controls.
[Family | v ] - [Typeface | v ] - [Size | v ]
But it would probably be to difficult to coordinate three individual,
system defined menus or combine them into a single view that fits
everyone's needs. Probably better to roll your own pop-ups in this
case.
Font menus were useful when people had about a dozen fonts installed.
Today we have hundreds of fonts on our machines and displaying all of
them in a single popup menu is just insane.
Personally, I like the Font Panel, but not everyone wants or needs all
of the functionality it provides. Unlike design applications, most
people using word processing, email, etc., only need a simple font
selection menu that displays a subset of all the fonts installed on
their system. Having a standard application menu that allows users to
group / hide / show fonts by collection or show WYSIWYG previews would
help resolve some of these issues in a uniform way.
- Scott
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